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No, it won't - because the ethernet on RPi is actually going over USB. The CPU doesn't have a built-in ethernet peripheral. So adding a gigabyte port would be p
by janoc 10y ago
No, it won't - because the ethernet on RPi is actually going over USB. The CPU doesn't have a built-in ethernet peripheral. So adding a gigabyte port would be pointless - the bottleneck would still be the USB bus.
- pja 10y agoThe data rate over USB2 after accounting for overheads is a lot faster than 100Mbit, so it’s not entirely pointless - you would be able to serve cache files faster for instance. But as soon as you have anything else hitting that bus, your real world bandwidth is going to be < 100MBit. Since 1G is more power hungry than 100MBit interfaces as well IIRC you can understand why the Pi people decided to stick with 100MBit.